369 Index A adaptive quantized variational filter (AQVF) 238- 244 Adaptive Rood Pattern Search (ARPS) 106-107, 109, 113 address event image sensors (AER) 15 Address Processor (AP) 302, 310 Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network 203 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) 125, 129, 131-132 ambient assistive living (AAL) 14, 17 analysis of variance (ANOVA) 26 C Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) 134-135, 139, 156-157 center-surround (CS) process 6-7, 22-24, 38, 129, 132, 303, 315-316 central processing unit (CPU) 61-62, 170, 238, 264, 275, 280, 285, 319, 322, 327-328 channel coding 41-45, 58 closed-circuit television (CCTV) 252 close-minus-open (CMO) operation 315, 317-318 Coiflet wavelet (CW) 61, 71, 90